health professional

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health professional Meaning of "health professional"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability

Synonym(s)

health care provider, pcp, primary care provider

Usage(s):

  1. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln has been implementing a policy where a mental health professional is placed as a live-in member of every dorm on campus.
  2. The organization is also testing out an online chat service that enables teens to get answers from a health professional at any time, day or night.
  3. About a third of soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq say they can't see a mental-health professional when they need to.
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